“Short-answer questions will directly address one or more of the thematic learning objectives for the course. At least two of the four questions will have elements of internal choice, providing opportunities for students to demonstrate what they know best. All of the short-answer questions will require students to use historical thinking skills to respond to a primary source, a historian’s argument, non-textual sources such as data or maps, or general propositions about world history. Each question will ask students to identify and analyze examples of historical evidence relevant to the source or question; these examples can be drawn from the concept outline or from other examples explored in depth during classroom instruction.

There are four short-answer questions on the exam. Note that the short-answer questions DO NOT REQUIRE STUDENTS TO DEVELOP AND SUPPORT A THESIS STATEMENT. In each short answer question, students will be asked to do three things, each of which will be assigned one point in the scoring.”